INTRODUCTION TO SHAFT ALIGNMENT Benefits of Good Machinery Alignment Consequences of Defective Alignment Four Basic Ingredients Necessary to Insure Alignment Success Eight Basic Steps to Align Machinery How Qualified Are You to Detect and Correct Machinery Misalignment? Why Should People Be Tested on Their Alignment Skills? Experience Evaluation for... more...

The present paper investigates whether tourism specialization is a viable strategy for development. We estimate standard growth equations augmented with a variable measuring tourism specialization using instrumental variables techniques for a large cross-section of countries for the period 1980-2002. We introduce an instrument for tourism based on... more...

This book contains the academic presentations at a Symposium on Advancing Excellence and Public Trust in Government which focused on the role of transparency in restoring the public trust. There was certainly a very broad consensus at the Symposium that transparency in government is extremely desirable, needs to be improved, will bring reform and improvement... more...